Inverted Sky
Chapter 7: Traverse Town part 3
"So...let me get this straight..." Sora began as she sat on a bed with her legs crossed.
Her being in a large room with green, tan and blue colored walls, this being one of the many sleeping chambers within the large hotel she was in. Yet she closed her eyes and tilted her head down as she continued to speak.
"Those creatures that have been attacking me are called 'Heartless'. Which are created when a person gives in to the darkness and loses their heart...according of course to a guy named 'Ansem'. Who left a series of detailed reports on his research on the Heartless." she continued as Leon and Yuffie gave a nod, both of them standing across from her.
"But those reports were all scattered across the worlds when the one Ansem himself was from had fallen into darkness. So the only thing you guys know is that they're after my heart because I wield the Keyblade, which is the biggest thing they fear the most." Sora said silently as she placed a thumb and pointer finger on her chin.
"And now I'm supposed to save the worlds, using the Keyblade to lock the key holes of each one so the Heartless can't consume them." she finished, her opening her eyes and looking between the two with a raised brow.
"Yep...that about sums it up." Yuffie said with a small smirk before going over and sitting down beside Sora.
Whom just sighed heavily, uncrossed her legs and shrugged her shoulders; "Well...I can't say I'm not thrilled about playing the 'Heroine', but I really need to find my friends first." she said before laying back on the bed.
"Speaking of which...have either of you seen a boy a bit taller than me with silver hair? Or a girl a bit shorter than me with auburn hair?" Sora asked as she leaded upward slightly, her pulling one of her spiky locks when referring to her friends' hair.
"I can't say that I have." was all Leon answered with as he shook his head and shrugging lightly.
"Same here...I haven't noticed anyone new that hasn't already been living here for more than a few years." Yuffie added with her own shrug.
"Figures." Sora muttered with a heavy sigh; "It's never 'that' easy, huh?"
"Well...if they're not here, then they must be on another world. So if you're going to be looking for them by traveling to different places...it would really help if you could save the worlds you visit before leaving." Yuffie suggested with a tilt of her head.
Though the brown-haired girl raised a brow to her briefly, she slowly looked up in thought before nodding in response. "I guess that could work. Killing too birds with one stone...or whatever other idiom works for that." she said with a shrug at the end.
"Huh...you know what idioms are?" Yuffie asked with blinking eyes and a tilt of her head.
"Hey...I pay attention in school, of course I know what they are." Sora stated with a light huff before she quickly turned to Leon.
"But if you ever find either of them, let me know." she continued, her tone showing that she wouldn't take 'no' for an answer.
Though immediately following the brown-haired man's nod in response a small Heartless, clad in armor, suddenly appeared in the middle of the room. "Yuffie go!" Leon called out as both he and Sora brought their weapons forth and readied them.
"Lets do this." he continued as he quickly kicked the Heartless through the window it was standing closest to.
All the while, Yuffie rushed through one of the doors in the room as she fled. Though the door had lead into another room, where a gentle female voice called out to the running girl before following after her. Yet Sora and Leon had quickly followed the Heartless outside, where they jumped off the balcony to land in the large walkway below.
Though after landing on the ground, the pair were quickly surrounded by dozens of Heartless, each one looking just like the one that had appeared in the room. But none of them even got the chance to attack as Sora brought her Keyblade up into the air. "Thundara!" she called out as all of her opponents were struck by lightning.
This caused all of the Heartless to disappear upon their defeat, to which Sora looked to Leon as he spoke up. "Find and defeat the leader. That should stop the Heartless from attacking this world for a while."
Sora nodded quickly to him in response as she soon rushed down the walkway, which had an open waterway running right along side of it. This being against the district walls and on the opposite side as the hotel, yet it ended just before a set of doors that held a '3' over them. These being on the same side as the hotel, which made it clear that the doors lead into the Third District.
Upon going through, Sora came out into said area, but didn't notice any Heartless around. She briefly paused and glanced around with a cautious gaze, to which she eventually just shrugged. "Looks like the leader isn't here, better check the other districts." she muttered silently.
'I haven't even got to see much of the Second one yet since Leon said I couldn't go sight-seeing. I'm sure he could have let me do a bit of exploring before explaining everything to me.' Sora thought silently, yet she quickly turned to the side as she heard an explosion.
Sora immediately tried to get out of the way, but she wasn't fast enough as she soon was 'tackled' to the ground by two strange beings dropping from air. "Ow." she groaned out.
"Huh? They key!" the pair laying atop of Sora said as they noticed the Keyblade in her hand.
"Hmm?" Sora hummed out as she was slowly able to stand after the pair did so as well.
One of them was an anthropomorphic duck with white plumage, a yellow-orange bill and legs of the same color. He had light blue eyes, plus a short tuft of feathers on his head and was only visible under his blue hat. This of which resembled a beret, only it had a belt in place of a normal brim, and sported a zipper that spanned the length of the hat. He also had on a high-collared, navy blue jacket, which held sky blue ling and cuffs. He also had a short, blue cape with yellow lining that he wore draped over his shoulders and kept in place by a silver strap. There were also thick, gold bangles on each of his wrists, yet despite all this clothing, he had no pants.
The second one was an anthropomorphic dog with black fur and droopy ears. He also had two bucked teeth and three short hairs coming out of the top of his head, which were show in the front of his hat. This one being orange in color, with a blue band in the middle, yet had an odd shaped top that resembled a teardrop placed on its side. There were a small pair of red goggles seen around the bottom of the hat as well, though strangely enough, the lenses appeared to be quite a bit smaller than this dog's eyes.
He also had on a green turtleneck sweater, with sleeves that belled out slightly and a blue arrow-shaped strap on each cuff. Over the sweater, there was a sleeveless, black vest with grey lining and four pockets of the same color. His pants appeared to be yellow in color as well as having large pockets and was secured around his waist by a thick, black belt. Atop of having very large brown shoes that had steel toes on the outside, he also wore white gloves with a brown band around each wrist.
"Um..." was all Sora muttered after looking at these two up and down for a few moments.
Though she didn't get a chance to speak any further as dozens of Heartless began appearing all around them. This leading for her to glance at the two for a moment, to which she smirked lightly upon seeing that they were in battle-ready stances with their own unique weapons. The dog seemed to have a small shield, which appeared very light and easy to use. While the duck has a staff, which appeared to resemble some sort of mage's weapon.
Sora then turned her attention back to the Heartless and rushed forward, only to slash at three of the nearby creatures. This attack destroying each of them instantly, to which she looked around and blasted multiple fire balls at the Heartless that the two anthropomorphic animals' were fighting. But after doing this, the pair blinked a few times at her as she just grinned lightly from her apparent excitement. "I think I could get used to this 'Heroine' thing." she muttered to herself as she defeated all of the Heartless on her own.
After her words however, the ground shook violently for a moment before a very large set of sliver, red, yellow and blue colored armor dropped from the sky. There was however a strange symbol on the chest area that looked like a bizarre shaped black and red heart. This making Sora raise a brow in question as she wondered if it meant something since it seemed almost out of place on the armor. Yet when the pieces of metal suddenly began to move on its own, Sora's eyes widen briefly when she realized this was another Heartless. "Whoa...is 'this' the leader?" she asked silently as her eyes soon narrowed.
"That means I'll just have to take care of you next." Sora stated with a small grin spreading on her features as she once again charged toward her opponent.
Despite the two anthropomorphic animals' being right behind her, they both shared a glance with one another as they were both rather shocked at this 'key's' power. However, this increased even more so as the armored Heartless continued to attack them with it's floating arms and stomping legs. Though it was the fact that Sora continued to dodge away or even block each and every strike that showed her skill.
"You're a tough one, huh?" the brown-haired girl said as she rolled away from another stopping foot of her opponent.
Yet after landing a few more slashes of her Keyblade on on of the arms, said limb suddenly disappeared. Which made Sora blink a few times before taking on a grin once more, to which she immediately began attack each of the other appendages, one at a time. This tactic soon making it to were the Heartless became nothing but an armored head and body.
Though even with an intimidating spinning attack that the creature used to hit the two anthropomorphic animals, Sora kept dodging out of the way. However, even after the pair seemed to be completely exhausted, the brown-haired girl kept using Cura on them to heal their injuries and return their stamina. But the fight continued to become a stalemate as the Heartless seemed to know that no one could beat it if it just continued to spin at great speed and hurl its body around.
"Alright...that's it." Sora growled out in frustration after having to roll away from another spinning attack by the Heartless.
She then brought her Keyblade out in front of her and narrowed her eyes heavily on her opponent, which soon came spinning right back toward her again. "Stopra!" she called out quickly.
Upon doing this a rippling wave of white magic burst from Sora's weapon, to which the Heartless suddenly stopped in mid-spin. This making the girl smirk once more as she charged at the frozen creature and jumped high into the air. She then brought the Keyblade in a reverse hand-grip as it was engulfed in a black magic; "Gravira Slice!" she yelled out before slashing the Heartless straight down the middle.
Almost immediately after her attack, a large pillar of Gravity magic surrounded the still frozen Heartless before slowly dying down. This sparking for the creature to soon move again, yet it only made one last rotation before it vanished. However, not before producing what looked like a heart shaped, blue and red colored crystal. Of which made Sora blink a few times at first before smirking lightly, her quickly figuring out that she released the heart that the Heartless had taken.
"Whew...today has been a heck of an exhausting day." Sora said with a heavy sigh as if to confirm her own words.
"Hey there." came a very goofy sounding voice from the side, to which the brown-haired girl turned and looked at the anthropomorphic dog.
"We've been lookin' for ya." he continued with a small smirk as Sora blinked a few times in response.
"Me? What for?" was all she asked as she tilted her head slightly to the side.
"They too have been seeking the wielder of the Keyblade." came the reply from Leon as he came up behind Sora along with Yuffie.
"Hey, why don't ya come with us? We can go to other worlds on our vessel." the anthropomorphic dog suggested as he gestured between him and his duck friend.
Whom gave a nod of his head in agreement; "That's right, I'm sure that you'll enjoy going to other places and seeing new things, right?" he said with a strange voice that sounded as though he were using his inner cheeks to speak.
"Hmm...I would like to do that, but I'm also looking for my friends." Sora explained with a light shrug of her shoulders.
"I'm not sure if I have time to just go running around to other worlds, they might need my help." she continued as she looked to her Keyblade as it soon disappeared in a flash.
"It's why I wanted to gain the power of magic in the first place...to protect them." the brown-haired girl finished silently as many around her nodded in understanding.
"I'm sure that we could find them along our journey." the anthropomorphic duck stated as he raised a finger up to further his words.
Sora looked at him for a moment before raising a brow at how him and his dog friend whispered to one another. "Hmm...well, I was going to go around searching any and all the worlds I could find. So...why not?" she said with a small grin on her face.
"I'll go with you guys." she continued as the two before her nodded in response.
"Donald Duck." the white-feathered duck introduced as he brought a hand out.
"The name's Goofy." the dog said, him following suit in the introductions and bringing his own gloved hand out and over his friend's.
"I'm Sora." the girl added with a nod of her head, to which she placed her hand over both of theirs.
"All for one..." Goofy began as they each smiled to one another before finishing in unison; "...and one for all."
And now it's on to the Disney worlds from here. ;) I'm sure you all know which world comes first, though just to let you know...it'll be the first to break the 'three chapter per world' thing I've had thus far. XD Then again, there have only been two worlds to this point. 0.o But I digress, I hope all of you are enjoying and will continue to read, favorite and review. Oh, and fyi...I'm thinking of posting my updates on the weekends from now on. It'll be easier on everyone to do it that way since...well, school is a thing at the moment. =/ So yeah, I'll give a little treat and update again this coming Saturday in order to establish the new schedule...and to make up for being late again in updating. ^^' So anyway, till next time everyone~!
